No, I’m not talking about the interface our users see in the web browser — there’s enough argument about that — I’m talking about web services, the technologies that form much of the infrastructure for Web 2.0.
Once upon a time, the technology that displayed a set of data, let’s say catalog records, was inextricably [...]

Posted November 30, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: amazon, amazon api, amazon web services, api, dublin core, ead, libraries, library, library catalog, marc, marc-xml, opac data, opensearch, web 2.0, web service, web services, web20, webservice, webservices, xml, xml server. 6 Comments.

I can’t explain why, at least not yet, but I’m looking for a way to search the iTunes Music Store catalog outside of iTunes. Rumors of an iTunes-Google partnership have been flying lately, but what I really want is a webservice/API I can use. Yes, Apple offers an affiliate program that supports direct links, but [...]

Posted August 24, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: itms, itms-4-all, itunes, itunes music store, itunes music store api, music store, music store api, pymuscique, webservice, webservices, xml. 8 Comments.

I want Wikipedia to have an API, but it doesn’t. Some web searching turned up Gina Trapani’s WikipedizeText, but that still wasn’t exactly what I wanted. A note in the source code, however, put me back on the trail to the Wikipedia database downloads, and while that’s not what I want, I did learn that [...]

Posted August 21, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: api, application programming interface, article titles, database download, free encyclopedia, hacking, rss, web services, webservices, wikipedia, xml. 9 Comments.